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4 on DC Comics Bombshells #4 reviewWe start a new arc with this issue now that the recruitment is more or less completed. Moving from enlistment to “Combat”, you might expect a lot of exciting conflict and Marguerite Bennett delivers for the most part. Kara and Kortni have been made fighting icons for the Russians (and are hating every moment of…
We are just one more issue away from the finale of Harley Quinn and Power Girl. Have you stuck with it so far? If yes, then you’re all set for another fun installment of space zany. If not, you might enjoy picking this up in trade as it’s sure to make a fabulous one-off. Maybe…
Ironically titled “Nothing Will Stop Us”, Gotham by Midnight No. 10 picks up where we left off: Jim Corrigan covered in gore and his world collapsing around him. Equally, it meets the bar set in the previous issue with a story that manages to further the plot and character development despite the majority of it…
Welcome to a new nadir from the Batgirl team: a superhero book without any real superheroics that features a title character who is so insufferable you'd think she was the neurotic bride being married. “Dearly Beloved” gives us the conversation we should have had in the last issue of Grayson--but couldn’t because, you know, Spyral…
Year Four concludes in this final installment that collects Digital Firsts 23 & 24, “Last Stand” and “Between the Gods”. Let’s just cut to the chase: the first half of this book seems to be setting up some brilliant cataclysm, but the back end just doesn’t deliver. It’s representative of the whole of Year Four,…
“Enlisted” concludes with a closing chapter of Zatanna and the Joker’s Daughter in Germany, Wonder Woman and Mera bringing Steve Trevor back to the world, and the return of Batwoman! As with previous issues of DC Bombshells, the split in the action is strongly demarcated by a dramatic change in the art style (more on…
Last month Harley made her way back to the West Coast in pursuit of Sparrow Adaro, who is faking her own kidnapping to extort money from her mother. Things got a little complicated when Deadshot arrived to pick up a few bounties of his own. Unfortunately, Harley’s cowboy sidekick did not survive the encounter, but…
This penultimate issue for Year Four includes Digital Firsts 21 & 22, “Going Dark” and “Darker Sides”. And while it’s got some big action that’s sure to please, Year Four’s weakest point hasn’t been a lack of action or stunning battle eye-candy--it’s been a lack of genuine surprise and awe. Ironic, when you’re dealing with…
Last month I quibbled that Harley and Power Girl were not working together, and that Peej was doing all the heavy lifting, so I was especially pleased to see more balance in this month’s issue, “Purity”. It’s going to take more than Power Girl’s brawn to subdue the brainwashed Vartox and return him to his…
I've "been trying really hard to highlight the positives that are in this book”. Truer words from Bat Reviewer Josh were never spoken as I really struggled with this issue. The fact is, I just don’t enjoy much about this book and would have a hard time recommending it even to its intended audience. It’s…
I am genuinely stunned by what just happened in this book. Literally, my jaw dropped as I turned the pages toward the climax. That look on Jim’s face at the end: confused, horrified, destroyed: that was me. Ray Fawkes has delivered a bona fide holocaust masquerading as a run-of-the-mill police procedural. Consider me standing and…
This issue follows two distinct storylines: Digital First 19 presents us with “Stupid Tartarus”, which is the best title yet in Year Four. This half features Harley Quinn, Billy Batson, and Hippolyta as they attempt to escape from the Prison of the Damned. Digital First 20, “Retreat”, returns us to Themyscira and that crashing wave…
“Harleywood” features more than the usual share of surprises with John Timms filling in for regular series artist Chad Hardin, and a script that feels not only way-scaled back in terms of goofiness compared to Harley Quinn’s Road Trip special, but has a body count higher than the last half-dozen comics put together. Harley has…
The formula for these Harley Quinn specials has been pretty predictable so far: you take a double issue (roughly), a cadre of very disparate artists (who are typically not regular artist Chad Hardin), a script from Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti that usually involves a variety of hallucinations or fantasy sequences (to help bridge the…
The “Enlisted” introduction continues in this second installment of DC Comics Bombshells and if you’re picking this up in print instead of keeping up with the Digital Firsts, you’re in for some surprises: both good and bad. Let’s get the unpleasant surprise out of the way first: this book is handled by not two, but…
Remember when Injustice: Gods Among Us was basically a book about Superman against Batman and the two teams (with a few rogue exceptions) were easily discerned based on who approved of Superman’s death-dealing blow to Joker after he accidentally killed Lois? Since the advent of Year Four, the lines have gotten increasingly blurry. Not only…
There can never be any doubt that Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti are going to bring the great big bloated crazy each and every month with Harley Quinn. This month’s “Ship of Fools” is no exception. Pair the writers’ zaniness with Chad Hardin’s art chops and this book can’t fail to please. Unless you think…
For a moment there, I thought it was going to be a week full of crazed man-hungry tigers (see Batgirl No. 43) as this installment, “The Jungle”, sports the image of a tiger among the the Midnight Shift team members in the issue opener. The tiger here is more metaphoric even though it’s literally present…
I promised I was going to try to say good things about this book this month and I’m keeping my promise, but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to point out where it’s still going places that nobody should want it to go. “Tooth and Claw” is the start of an arc about tigers gobbling…
This month’s outing, “Insurance Waivers” is another big helping of what you should by now expect from Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Justin Gray. Both predictable in its rhythm and completely off-the-wall in its actual content, Harley Quinn and Power Girl is like a bag of Cheetos: utterly delightful and so very tasty irrespective of…
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This is an archive of Batman-News.com from 2010 to 2025. For the latest news, check out BatmanNews.com